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Book Four: A Land So Wild by Elyssa Warkentin  

"In 1845, the HMS Vanguard, under the command of Captain William Caulderson, departed England on a voyage of discovery to find a Northwest Passage through the perilous arctic waters separating the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It was never heard from again. Five years later, Captain David Maxwell of the Serapis sets sail to attempt to recover the Vanguard and determine the fate of his former commander."

Now that we’re beginning our reading period of James Fitzjames’s biography, it’s time to announce our next book! For our fourth installment of The Terror Book Club, we’ll be diving into this awesome LGBTQ historical romance novel, which focuses on a rescue mission for a fictional lost arctic expedition. And if that wasn’t awesome enough, it’s written in epistolary form. 

David, I was wrong about writing our own story. We are not writing at all, but rather learning to read it in the darkness

Wenn es so sein soll dass wir hier sterben, so werden wir zumindest dies gehabt haben.

Hey folks, we’re trying out a couple different discussion formats and this time around we’re going to do a few questions at regular intervals throughout the reading period rather than a bunch at the end. 

Feel free to respond to any or all of these questions in a reblog, a reply, or a separate post (make sure to tag us!). 

What are your expectations of the book?

What do you think of epistolary storytelling?